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Comment by wingman

Dont moonkins like crit?

Comment by Tygroen

I am a boomkin myself and one of my favorite things to do is to pull of a big boomkin crit and am really annoed that there is NO crit chance on any part of this set, but I can also understand why. Continuing on about what people said above, the Resiliance Rating pluses are getting REALLY high from the new armor sets and the gems, so crit chance isn't too important anymore (for pvp purposes).

What we really want is, yes, those mp5s because if you are a boomkin like I am, you know that we run outta mana VERY fast and we also need to start focusing on +damage more than +crit. I VERY much agree with the idea of Windhawk+Arena 2 gear to be awesome, but I disagree about the use of the +crit gems. If you are going to do anything, do gems like +Spell damage and Intel, or +Spell Damage and Crit, or +Spell Damage and Stam, or +Spell Damage and mp5. What's the point of an awesome moonkin crit if your mana is gone in 2 seconds or if the crit is something so low that it is barely a threat anyway.

So personally, I am goin by what that guy said above with the Windhawk set and the remaining slots filled with the 4 arena pieces. Im also gunna socket them with a mixture of plus damage/plus crit damage so i get a good mixture of both. This is my opinion of the situation...

Also, what the other person said above, about our set 4 bonus, and Blizzards assumption at druid pvp.....thats BS. I hate boomkin pvpers that all they do is spam moonfire. the only time i do that is when im getting bumbarded by a rogue/warrior or a buncha people at once and my Barkskin cooldown is not up yet, so i cannot cast. I know im gunna die anyhow and i cant cast at all, so i try to cause as much damage as possible b4 my death...we need a new set bonus...like more +spell damage would rok my sox

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Comment by Grimclaw

Is it just me, or do the graphics for this set not match all the pieces? Its seems like 5 different artists were told how Nordrassil looked, and without being allowed to actually look at the set had to draw it. It doesnt fit together....

And unlike T5 it has pants, instead of a kilt/robe which totaly sux.

Comment by Tyrnall

Though players are stacking more and more resilience, and going oom is always a major negative for moonkin, crit is still more important than the above posters would have you believe, and moonkin really should be annoyed about the way these points have been budgeted.

Consider that 58 mp5 (the total from the set) is 696 mana per minute. Consider that in a typical arena match lasting longer than 5 minutes, you will drop combat at least once (or you should be able to). Take into account the fact that over 5 minutes, this 58 mp5 turns into 3480 mana, which is roughly 3 ticks (or 6-7 seconds) of drinking from arena water.

Congratulations, that got exactly what you got by spending 25 silver, 2 honor, and less than 10 seconds out of combat.

On the other hand, the mp5 could be used for crit. While other players are stacking resilience, the reduced damage taken from crit is capped around 25%, or about 400 resilience. With moonkin talents, that means your target will *still* take 75% additional damage, which is a lot if you're talking about a 2.5k starfire hit.

What's more, who's ever heard of steady dps'ing a dps/healer combo down? The way to kill these combos is by forcing them to react or make mistakes, which is doable by either stopping them from healing (CC) or by forcing them to heal for more, faster (via crits.)

Though I'm having trouble finding the source, a euro-boards druid claimed that 58 mp5 worked out to over 6% spell crit. If you could take your pick: 4 ticks of drinking spread over 5 minutes, or 6% crit? I'd go 6% crit every time.